This study represents the first-ever attempt to explore the feasibility of region-specific application of the theory of generations in the context of Pakistan. Building upon the Schuman and Scott's (1989) historical method of identification of the predominant events from the coming-of-age era of various age groups through the study of the collective memories of various age groups, in this study, primarily, a qualitative methodology was deployed across three (3) focus group discussions involving 50 academicians and industrial experts to ascertain the presence or otherwise of distinct workplace generations of Pakistan. The discussions were centred on participant's recollection of the socio-economic, political and technologically significant events that happened during their coming-of-age era and the way it impacted the formation of unique characteristics of each generation. These events thus served as the generational pointers which led to the indication towards the presence of three distinct Pakistani generational cohorts as Pakistani Baby Boomer Generation, Pakistani Generation X, and Pakistani Millennials/Generation Y who are currently comprising the workforce of Punjab, which is the second-largest and most developed province of the country. In the second paper of this series, it is anticipated that a larger quantitative investigation may well open the pathway to the generalization of these findings in support of the context-specific application of the theory of generations. The generational profiling emanating from this study has strong implications for the HR practitioners concerning the design of generationally tailored HR policies such that the generational differences are mitigated through various diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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特定背景下的世代分类：一项基于巴基斯坦活跃劳动力集体记忆的探索性研究

本研究首次尝试探索世代理论在巴基斯坦背景下的区域特定应用的可行性。建立在 Schuman 和 Scott (1989) 通过研究不同年龄组的集体记忆来识别不同年龄组成年时代主要事件的历史方法的基础上，在本研究中，主要是一种定性方法部署在三 (3) 个焦点小组讨论中，涉及 50 名院士和行业专家，以确定巴基斯坦不同世代的工作场所是否存在。讨论的中心是参与者对社会经济、发生在他们成年时期的政治和技术重大事件及其影响每一代人独特特征形成的方式。因此，这些事件充当了代际指标，表明存在三个不同的巴基斯坦代际群体，即巴基斯坦婴儿潮一代、巴基斯坦 X 一代和巴基斯坦千禧一代/Y 一代，他们目前构成旁遮普省的劳动力，即全国第二大、最发达的省份。在本系列的第二篇论文中，预计更大规模的定量研究可能会为这些发现的概括开辟道路，以支持世代理论的特定上下文应用。